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As we think about our husband’s past let’s think about our own. Do any of you have secrets that you haven’t shared with your husband? Maybe it’s something that you are embarassed about because you were so foolish. Maybe it is a sin that you hope you have conquered. Maybe it is something that happened to you that you could not control. Maybe you feel he couldn’t love you if he knew the truth. Maybe you haven’t forgiven yourself so you don’t want anyone else to forgive you. Maybe it was a pattern of hurtful words that just seem insignificant as an adult. Maybe you want him to love your family. Maybe it seems trivial today. Maybe it was so tramatic that you actually don’t remember it in your consious mind. No, I don’t advocate telling your husband everything. Some past sins and situations might do much more harm when held up in the light of today. Unfortunately, some people are indiscrete and might use confidential information to tease, embarrass, ridicule, or control another person. That should not be the way they handle confidential information but many times it is. Often they don’t intend to hurt you, they just see the scar but they never felt the wound. The point I want to make is that no matter how well you think you know your husband, there are undoubtedly things that he has not confided in you about his past. We want to look our best, to be loved and accepted so we don’t hang flashing arrows up to hi-light our warts. Phillipians 3:13 & 14 Brethern, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. What great verses, but the reality is that most of us are not able to forget the past. Why not? If God breathed these verses into the scripture, it must be possible to forget those things of the past that defeat us. Well, the main reason that the past keeps popping up is that Satan uses our past to defeat our present. Satan may not be able to tempt you with an affair but he can defeat you with your past. And he can do the same thing to your husband and to mine.
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